(grammar) A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time).

The past historic tense.

(grammar) A compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, in function a pluperfect, and in form composed of the conjunction of the simple past tense of an auxiliary verb (avoir, être) with the past participle.

(grammar, of the tense) Of a tense, not pertaining to the past; in particular, applicable to both the present and the future.

(grammar) A tense used to describe actions and states continued in the past.

A tense which describes actions that occurred before another action or event in the past; the pluperfect or the past anterior tense.

plural of past participle

(grammar) past continuous

(grammar) of, or relating to, the past participle

simple past